What Obstacle Did Immigrant Women Face on the Journey to the United

question 1

Multiple Choice

What obstacle did immigrant women face on the journey to the United States?

• A) Some women were turned back at embarkation stations because national quotas had already been met.
• B) Italian women were assumed to be immoral and were detained until they could establish their respectability.
• C) Many women spent ten to twenty days living in cramped, unhealthy conditions below deck.
• D) Hundreds of thousands of European women were sold into white slavery on the journey.

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